Digimon Story: Rainbow Traverse -- Chp 24

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“You’re no fun this morning.” He teased.
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Exiting the tv, Al smiled as he saw Ike laying on the sofa.. quietly walking over and giving the blond a kiss before softly tussling his hair.  Once that was done he would bop into Vivian’s de facto “command center.”

“Aloha,” Al said as he then gave a smirk “I guess CatchMamemon told you guys about the laser tag nuke?” He asked as he then perked up at her mention of the ghostmon. “Well that’s good news! What have you been able to find out? Anything that might tell us how to wake up all the comatose people?”

The spectacled tamer took a sip, nodding. "From what we can tell," she said. "We were on the money about each Ghostmon having information about a specific coma patient." Turning back to her computer, Vivi opened up a number of files, alongside images of people and their Ghostmon counterparts. "Long story short, the Ghostmon are like literal ghosts; echoes of digitized memories belonging to the humans they're masquerading as."

"Fascinating," said Renee, the faux-human stroking her chin as she marveled at the computer's multiple screens. "Does that mean they've been siphoning off memories from the coma patients? Or merely holding onto them for safe keeping?"

"Hard to say. We'd have to extract the data from the Ghostmon to know which exact memories they're storing, which is a whole 'nother can of worms for obvious reasons."

“That’s not just good news, it’s great,” Al said, a small smile coming to his lips. If what she was saying was true, then they could possibly cure everyone in one fell swoop once they figured out what data belonged to who and how to return it to the victims. But that comment about data extraction..

“Will that hurt the Ghostmon?”

Vivian took her glasses off, staring down at them. "That's the problem," she said. "Kuku's looking into it, but, right now? We don't have a surefire way of extracting the data safely."

"And even if we could," said Renee. "How would we get the memories back into the patients? Humans can't absorb data like digimon do. Theoretically, BlackRenamon was able instill a program into Al, but I doubt she'd help us without strings attached."

“Not to mention what nefarious things she might do to the data when we aren’t looking..” he then sighed. “But Rena does have a point.. Brena could somehow put code inside me. I don’t like it.. but we might - need her help. If anything so we can get her to show us how to do it.” As he talked.. he began realizing something. “Wait.. yeah, yeah that could be it!” He then looked at Renamon. “So you remember what she said? She awakened some sort of ability to manipulate code like it was magic, and she said that you had the same power. We might not need her to put the code back into the victims.. we just gotta convince her to show you how to do it!”

He then frowned “Though I don’t think she would do it for free, like you said Renamon..”

The shapeshifter lowered her head, her eyes closed as she folded her arms. "...This isn't going to be straightforward like Hotel-Alfa," she said. "Combat's one thing, but persuading a literal bad actor, fooling her, and getting away with it? We'd need an ace up our sleeves that she wouldn't know about, or even consider as a possibility."

“True.. Kei’s going skydiving though..” Al thought about something else- then groaned

“There’s always.. her.” Al said as he flashed Renamon a snippet of Arukenimon. “Like it or not, Theridia and her info helped us get Kama back. I think it’s time we got back in touch with her.” He then muttered under his breath “We’ve been putting it off long enough as it is.”

"Wouldn't be half surprised if she already knew."

"Me and Eyesmon'll try to find out what we can," said Vivi, putting her glasses back on. "But between the Ghostmon and keeping CODE off our backs, there's not much we can do."

"We'll figure it out, Vivi," said Renee. "We always do."

“It’s still good form to at least let her know more from the source.” And he would then Look at Vivi “It sounds like you guys will need a break too… keep us posted alright?” He said as he then gave Vivi a small hug. “We’ll be in the other room.” He said as he motioned for Renamon to follow

"You got it," said Vivi, and as she turned back to her computer, Renee followed Al out of the room.

("Al,") she thought, resting a hand on the athlete's shoulder. ("We'll need to decide when to meet up with Theridia, and whether or not to go by ourselves.")

(“Agreed.. and I think we should do it alone. Let everybody have another day where they relax. Just look at Ike. Poor guy’s exhausted.. he didn’t even react earlier.”)

And as the two re-entered the living room, who else but Ike would snore loud enough to shake the apartment.

("Good point,") thought Renee. ("How Gazimon sleeps at night with ears like his, I'll never know.")

For his part, the chimera slept upside down on the bag chair, foot twitching in the air as he dreamed.

("The junkyard was over a day ago. How're they sleeping this hard?")

(“Maybe Ike’s saving energy.”) Al said as he then chuckled (“or he’s building up for a sexual outburst.”)

Renee let out a silent chuckle. ("Sexual outburst, huh?") she thought, her hand wrapping around Al's waist. ("Now why does that sound familiar~") Yet as she looked deep into her lover's eyes, she couldn't avoid wincing as Ike let out another loud snore, though in now way did Renee's smile subside. ("Wonder if either of them suffer from sleep apnea.")

(“Well you know.. sometimes a cute boy just needs dick.”) he joked as he then softly caressed his face.. also wincing (“He’s not like this when he’s sleeping over..”) he said as he took her by the hand and led her outside.

“Okay let’s call..” and he would call Spinny

“Hey.. Renamon and I wanna see your mom, Spinny.”